The Organization Department of the Central Committee of Communist Party of China (CPC) announced here Thursday that disciplinary supervision of CPC officials had achieved significant successes in its crackdown on malpractice.
Statistics released by the department indicate that during the past seven years, a total of 1,963 legal and disciplinary cases involving CPC officials were investigated and dealt with accordingly.
Some 519 officials at section chief level and above had been punished for disciplinary offences, while 5,991 officials who had been illegally promoted had been demoted.
Since 1998, the Organization Department has dispatched 39 inspection groups to 30 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in a bid to intensify the supervision of official promotions and dismissals.
In May 1998, the department opened a whistleblowers' hot-line encouraging people to disclose official malpractice.
(Xinhua News Agency October 11, 2002)
